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The rising tide of environmental refugees 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Our early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking.
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The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in the summer by 2030, or sooner.
Melting ice could lead to massive waves of climate refugees 0
Posted 6 months ago
The International Institute for Environment and Development has analyzed the effect of a 10-meter rise in sea level, providing a sense of what the melting of the world’s largest ice sheets could mean. The IIED study begins by pointing out that 634 million people live along coasts at or below 10 meters above sea level. This massive vulnerable group includes one eighth of the world’s urban population.
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